About Wesley Ford
Wesley Ford is a personal injury attorney at Farah & Farah's Orange Park, Florida office, where he serves as a foundational leader, coordinating and litigating challenging cases across North Florida. He has been with Farah & Farah for 25 years, including the last 18 in the Orange Park office, and focuses on motor vehicle, premises liability, and wrongful death matters.
A notable matter Ford handled involved a local sheriff's deputy injured in the line of duty when a semi-tractor trailer veered out of its lane on the interstate, causing debilitating spinal injuries and substantial medical bills. Senior partner Chuck Farah describes Ford as 'one of those larger-than-life attorneys' with both 'a warm and inviting personality' and a 'tenacious work ethic.'
Ford's father was an attorney, exposing him to law from childhood. He earned his B.A. in English and Business from the University of Tennessee and his J.D. from Florida Coastal School of Law. He is admitted to The Florida Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and is a member of the Florida Justice Association, the Jacksonville Justice Association, and the American Association for Justice.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Farah & Farah
These results are credited to Farah & Farah. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A federal jury in Jacksonville found for Judith Berger, a forty-year smoker with end-stage COPD, on all claims against Philip Morris USA in September 2014. It awarded $6,250,000 in compensatory damages and $20,760,000.14 in punitive damages. The trial court set aside the fraud claims and the punitive award, but the Eleventh Circuit reinstated them in 2018 and held in 2021 that the punitive award was not unconstitutionally excessive.
A federal jury in Jacksonville found that cigarettes made by R.J. Reynolds were a legal cause of a Florida man's death from lung cancer in 1996. It awarded his widow $5.9 million in compensatory damages and assigned 27.5 percent of the fault to him, which produced a judgment of $4,277,500. In October 2014 the Eleventh Circuit reversed over the exclusion of evidence of his alcohol use and remanded for a new trial, and the case settled on undisclosed terms in January 2015 before any retrial.
A Duval County jury returned a $1.83 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in the wrongful-death claim of Kenneth Hiott, a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer; the trial court reduced the award to $730,000 based on comparative fault, and Florida's First District Court of Appeal affirmed in January 2014.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
